Today, 13 September, is the feast of ...
* Maurilius, bishop of Angers (453)
- a native of Milan; there is a tradition in Angers that he had a
vision of singing angels on the night of 8 September, inducing him to
institute the feast of the Birthday of Mary in the diocese there
Last year Graham Jones:
Tradition also held that Maurilius exiled himself to Britain (where he worked as
a lord's gardener) after neglecting to baptise a dying child. The child was
restored to life and, as Renatus (sic), succeeded him as bishop. (AA.SS.)
Suspecting that Maurilius may be the St Mawrell whose (?relic ?image) was
venerated in the late MA at Hallaton, Leicestershire, together with a
(?post-Reformation) 'holy' well, I should be grateful to hear from any fellow
list-member who can advise on the extent (if any) to which Maurilius was
commemorated at the abbey of St Nicholas of Angers, which was granted pecuniary
rights elsewhere in Leicestershire in the late eleventh century.
* Eulogius, patriarch of Alexandria (c. 607)
- Gregory the Great really admired his writings, saying to him:
'I find nothing in your writings but what is admirable'
* Amatus or Ame, abbot (c. 630)
- first abbot of Remiremont
* Amatus or Ame, bishop of Sion in Valais (c. 690)
- like St Goar and some other saints, he would hang up his cloak
not on a hook but on a sunbeam
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Carolyn Muessig
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University of Bristol
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